Not only is it time for the Grammys and the Oscars, but it is also award season for children's books. Last Monday the winners of several big awards were announced, and they are:

Newbery Medal: (author award)
Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Honor Books: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

Caldecott Medal: (illustrator award)
Winner: The House in the Night - ill. by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson
Honor Books: A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever written & illustrated by Marla Frazee
How I Learned Geography written & illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, ill. by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award: (for beginning readers)
Winner: Are You Ready to Play Outside by Mo Willems
Honor Books: Chicken said, "Cluck!" by Judyann Ackerman Grant, illustrated by Sue Truesdell
One Boy written & illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (RVC's own!)
Stinky written and illustrated by Eleanor Davis
Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator by Sarah C. Campbell

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal: (nonfiction)
Winner: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Honor Books: Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of the Past by James M. Deem
What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!" written by Barbara Kerley and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham